Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship

Intercultural, Ethical, and Justice-Based Approaches (2025)

“Namrata Sharma brilliantly addresses the ethical dilemmas at the heart of teaching GCE as transformative knowledge, showcasing her expertise and visionary approach. In this insightful book, she expands on value-creating global citizenship education as a framework for cultivating constructive change-makers, providing groundbreaking, practical solutions for educators and policymakers complementing GCE and ESD.” — Massimiliano Tarozzi, Professor, University of Bologna, Italy, and UNESCO Chair on Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education

“This inspiring new book is what Global Education needs now. Drawing on diverse global sources, informed by key research, policy, practice, and an ethical justice and planetary perspective, it explores the future of Global Education. It will be of immense value to policymakers, researchers, teacher educators and practitioners.” — Liam Wegimont, Executive Director, GENE – Global Education Network Europe

“Environmental crises are a major threat to humanity. Are we ready to tackle these crises? Does education serve the purpose of making the world a better place to live? This book offers a fresh perspective from selected Eastern and other indigenous viewpoints which many have ignored to developing an intercultural approach to curricula for education for sustainable development. It offers practical examples of selected worldwide initiatives for sustainable development and the implications for teaching and learning.” — Wendy Yee Mei Tien, Principal, Soka International School Malaysia, Malaysia

“Humankind must recognize knowledge created by people worldwide, Indigenous as well as mainstream voices. Dr. Namrata Sharma offers unique global knowledge links – theoretical and practical – for teachers, scholars, policymakers, and interested readers to learn about meaningful, humanist, value-creating, earth-centered, global/planetary citizenship education.” — Tania Ramalho, Professor of Education, Emerita – SUNY Oswego, USA

“Sharma’s volume is an important addition to the growing number of works on sustainability and global citizenship. The focus on value creation and the work of the Earth Charter provides an important added dimension to the literature in the field.” — Douglas Bourn, Professor of Development Education, University College London, UK

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Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Development

Strategies and Approaches (2020)

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“In many of the discussions, policies, and bodies of practice around Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship, value-creating perspectives have all too often been ignored. This excellent volume by Namrata Sharma provides a welcome and much needed response incorporating philosophical debates, review of policies, and examples of practice.” — Douglas Bourn, Professor and Co-Director of the Development Education Research Centre, University College London – Institute of Education, UK

 “In these unprecedentedly difficult times, value-creating global citizenship education embodies an insightful and thought-provoking pedagogical approach for sustainable development, peace, and human rights. Sharma provides a groundbreaking, non-Western perspective to reframe Global Citizenship Education from a values-based angle.” —Massimiliano Tarozzi, Professor and Director, International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education, University of Bologna, Italy

 “This book is a gift to be shared with anyone who believes in education as the pathway to peace and sustainability. Inclusive and comprehensive—a must read book.”— Wendy Yee Mei Tien, Senior Lecturer and Director for the Centre for Internship Training and Academic enrichment (CITrA), University of Malaya, Malaysia

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Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education

Engaging Gandhi, Makiguchi, and Ikeda as Examples (2018)

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“Global citizenship has become a popular theme of numerous educational publications but this excellent volume by Dr. Sharma brings Asian perspectives and approaches that have been sadly neglected in the literature to date. What is particularly impressive about this volume is the way in which the ideas of Gandhi and two Japanese thinkers, Makiguchi and Ikeda, are shown to be very relevant to today’s social, political and educational debates.”—Douglas Bourn, Professor and Co-Director of the Development Education Research Centre, University College London-Institute of Education, UK, and author of Theory and Practice of Development Education

“A well-researched treatise on the three revolutionaries, Makiguchi, Ikeda, and Gandhi, this study offers refreshing insights into their contemporary relevance and the subsequent efforts underway in different parts of the world to contextualize their visions for the practice of global citizenship education, human rights and a sustainable future. The author reveals admirable analytical skills in revisiting their strivings for a new humanistic world vision through restructuring of education as a potential instrument of value creation.”— N. Radhakrishnan, Professor, Senior Gandhian scholar and activist, Chairman of Indian Council of Gandhian Studies, New Delhi, and Dean of the Faculty of Languages in Gandhigram University, India

“Global citizenship is enjoying a rediscovery lately in the scholarly literature—and for good reason given increasing turns toward nationalism worldwide. In this book, Namrata Sharma offers an important, timely and necessary examination of non-Western perspectives and praxis of education for global citizenship rooted in the internationally growing area of value-creation advanced by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Daisaku Ikeda, and in the philosophy and practice of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.”— Jason Goulah, Associate Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and Director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

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